Tol-in-Gaurhoth XVIII: The Play’s The Thing…

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Yes. I'm angered. This offends the spirit of the game. Such interior messaging should not be allowed.

This game is cooked. I want out. Please vote for me.

"Interior messaging", as you put it, is an intrinsic part of the game. It is standard, is it not, for Gifteds to drop subtle hints in the hope that innocents will pick up on them and that Wolves will not, or to assist the village in the event that they die?

If it was pre-arranged , then I would agree with you. But it was not.

And simply because someone has said that they are innocent in a coded message, it does not follow that they are. No more that if they were openly to state their innocence. I cannot be certain that Nilp is innocent because he declared as much in his anagram but, based on my knowledge of him, I tend to think that he is. And, much as I hate to "step out of the game" in my posts, we all rely to a degree on past games and our knowledge of those that we have played with in the past. In fact, as far as I can see, this is Formendacil's main strategy.

This all seems like a bit of an over-reaction to me.

But I cannot disregard littlemanpoet's vote for himself and entreaty that others vote for him. It could be genuine. But it is also quite possible that it was pre-arranged that, given how suspicious he looked coming into today, he would stand as a sacrifice, enabling his fellow Wolves to vote for him and thereby gain credit.

If lmp is a Wolf, we should look closely at those whom he has declared guilty and at those who have voted for him. Although that will almost certainly include me.